Its been a while!

hmm where to begin.

Well I will tell you all about my last few days in Uganda. Me and michelle left on thursday from kampala Uganda and headed towards Buhoma on the western border of uganda. It was a 12 hour bus ride.... ugh but quite cool. The last three hours were along this tiny dirt road snaking its way up these steep mountains. Aunty tammy it reminded me of you.... michelle was freaking out because it was like just wide enough for the bus and if you drove off it was a long way down..... shannon lake road:). anyways after a very long bus ride we arived ina small town thewn loaded into the back of a pick up truck with about 12 others... and enough supplies for a week (needles to say it was full) and headed to bhuoma. After 9km of hair raising driving and a numb but we arrived. We stayed the night in a lodge in buhoma inside Bwindi Impenetrable forest national park. In the morning we woke early and started our hike.
The first day of the hike was mostly within the park. We had two porters to carry our big back packs, a giude, and two rangers with rifles in case anything got to close. We walked 15 km the first day up and down two passes and then ended with a long ascent up to our camp.... and when I say long I mean we climbed straight up a mountain for about 3 hrs. We were tired!

The camp at the top is called Nkuringo campsite..... amazing. U sit on top of the mountain with 360 degree views over the bwindi forest, the democratic republic of congo (just a few kms away) and south to a series of 7 volcanoes. Soo amazing
The next day we took off at 8 again and had a very long day. U walk 10km along a road snaking its way along the tops of the mountains through little villages then turn off and start moving a few valleys over. The next 7 km was all up and down but scenic. After completing the 17km before lunch we stopped and ate and watched the local villages at work in the field. The children were terrified of us and literally ran away. Its pretty remote! After lunch we continued down to the lake just a km or two and loaded into hollowed out tree canoes and paddled across lake mutanda for 3.5 hrs. After that it was 5km more to kisoro and our place for the night....

it was alot of fun but alot of walking and we wereexhausted. One of the funniest highlights was having to tuck our pants into our socks and run as fast as we could along one section of trail to avoid being bitten by the millions of red ants swarming the trail.... that and the huge black momba snakes we saw!!

anyways today we have arrived in kigali Rwanda. The drive here through the mountains was excellent and i think we will enjoy our time here.

Ok thats all for now. Hope all is well at home!
Jessie

PS- YCI is letting me head back to mombasa to do the second project. This is amazing as I will be able to take off running as soon as I get there and continue along the great projects we got started!!